About a week ago Spotify began adding playlists automatically and auto-playing them randomly, and switching songs before they finish. Note, this is unlikely to be an account issue (e.g. playing on a different device, hacked account), how do I know this? I am not the only person who's having this issue with the exact same playlist:

This is now making my Spotify unusable as it keeps constantly switching to this list. I have changed my password, forced my account to log out of all other devices and deleted all app access to my Spotify account.

Re: Spotify adds a playlist on it's own and plays it automatically, if removed it happens repeatedly

I am also having the same problem; it started like a day or two ago and I cannot figure out why. I have already gone through the steps that you suggested and the exact same string appeared in my playlists. Please figure this out.

Re: Spotify adds a playlist on it's own and plays it automatically, if removed it happens repeatedly

This is why I don't think my account has been compromised or that this is that type of issue, it's not only you and me, at least 3 other people have had the same problem (see the other thread I linked). Makes no sense that someone would compromise 5 different people's accounts from all over the world so that he can use our accounts to repeatedly add a list and play the songs for us...

Re: Spotify adds a playlist on it's own and plays it automatically, if removed it happens repeatedly

Mine's been doing the exact same thing, suddenly it'll switch to playlists that I have never listened to, and it'll keep trying to switch to those between songs and in the middle of songs. No one else is on my account, no one uses my computer/phones and have never given my pass (for anything) to anyone lol This all started a few weeks ago, before christmas.

Re: Spotify adds a playlist on it's own and plays it automatically, if removed it happens repeatedly

I too had that other playlist in the thread I mentioned appearing for a week or so before this new one began appearing instead. It hasn't shown up since I last posted but if it does I will post a screenshot and contact support. Thanks!

Re: Spotify adds a playlist on it's own and plays it automatically, if removed it happens repeatedly

You guys should probably check to see if you got pwned by a website hack. If you use the same email address and password on multiple websites, odds are it was scripted to check to see if it works on other popular websites:

A similar issue happened with me on my Spotify account a month or two ago -- my Spotify was upgraded to Family without my knowledge, and I started having random playlists added and random songs would start playing. Once I changed all my passwords Spotify stopped doing it.